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Offering Solution-Focused Therapy and Hypnotherapy in Brighton and Hove I specialise in helping people with anxiety related issues so they feel calmer and more in control. My role is to ensure your mind is working in a way that enables you to feel happier and positive, empowering you to focus on the things that are important to you and leaving behind the things that are standing in your way. I have been offering NLP and Hypnotherapy in Brighton since 2008. To read my testimonials and learn more about how I have helped people, click here.

Panic attacks and similar anxiety can be severely challenging for those that suffer, as I have seen with numerous of my clients. Being told it’s part of our fight/flight response can be helpful to see that the behaviour is in fact based on a positive intention…but doesn’t actually solve the problem behaviour. What we need to do is…

Helping clients ease their IBS (Irritable Bowel Syndrome) symptoms such as pain, bloating and the anxiety that goes with that is particularly rewarding, as I used to suffer with this myself a number of years ago. And it’s great to see that hypnotherapy for IBS is getting some good press too; BBC article Quite often…

Having a fear of speaking in public is one of the commonest fears in the world, affecting most people to some degree, especially if they haven’t had much experience of speaking in public. Here are my top tips, based both on my personal experience and through the many clients I have helped:

I’m really pleased to be reading that more people are now willing to use hypnosis for minor operations instead of the traditional form of anesthesia, with surgeons now working alongside hypnotherapists. This makes it easier to show to my patients that controlling and substantially reducing their pain is something easily learnt.

Helping clients to build self esteem and confidence is something I do a lot of, probably because it’s an area in our lives that most of us feel we could do with improving on. So below are a few tips and exercises I use on myself and with my clients and because we all respond…

‘Champions aren’t made in gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them- a desire, a dream, a vision’ Muhammad Ali It’s been well recognised that having positive thoughts and expectations are more likely to bring you positive results. We know what it’s like when we walk into a room and feel a…

We all know what it’s like when we try to communicate a message across to someone and it’s misunderstood. In NLP it has been suggested that there exists a set of learning filters which we use to communicate to one another and so the response we get can depend on how we use these filters….

In my final blog on the principles of NLP comes Flexibility. This is all about being flexible enough in our behaviour so that we have choice and options open to us. The more choices we have available to us the more likely we are to achieve success in our outcomes.

Following on from my previous post on the Core Principles Of NLP I wanted to talk a little bit more about Sensory Acuity. This is about the way we think, remember and construct our thoughts through the use of our senses and also how we communicate that through the choice of our language. The core senses…

I was recently looking over some of my notes from the NLP course I did many years ago and was reminded of the simplicity that lay in the foundations of NLP, the core principles as such. These are: Rapport Outcome Thinking Sensory Acuity Flexibility

John Gottman, a US Psychologist, has spent almost two decades studying the interaction of couples. He has found the key determining factor in finding out what can be put right in a relationship is not how passionately a couple argue but the way they argue. He has found four key factors that make or break…

Thinking, speaking, writing and of course dreaming in metaphors is something we all regularly do, and yet we rarely give a moment’s pause for our choice of metaphors and the importance they play. ‘I am up to my eyes in stress’, ‘The kids are driving me mad’, ‘My stomach is all tied up in knots’,…

Now although a number of my articles have covered various anxiety relieving topics, including specific exercises, I am aware I haven’t written a straight forward ‘Top five’ list as such so here goes. These are simple and effective options which anyone can use to help their situation. They are not in any specific order of importance…

This is the second blog of two parts on self hypnosis, with this month’s focus on the practical learning of how to use self hypnosis to achieve a specific outcome. Also a quick reminder for those of you with google plus please do click on the little icon on my home page and also check out my…

This post will be covering in quite some depth an understanding of depression and what can be done to alleviate it, based on my learning taken from the pioneering Uncommon Knowledge approach. They have a specific site set up focused just on helping people with depression; www.clinical-depression.co.uk To learn more about my experience and training…

To talk or perform in front of people is something most of us will do at some point in our lives and some of us do it far more often than that, usually in our work environments. What’s common to almost everyone is some form of nervousness or even excitement, whether that feeling might start…

We all will have heard the saying “to walk in someone elses shoes” when used as a metaphor for building empathy with someone. For most of us this is something we probably think we can do quite well. The friend who comes to us for advice, or reading a sad or shocking story in the…

I am seeing more and more clients who want to control and stop emotional binge eating, using NLP and hypnotherapy for weight loss. Most people who come for help feel that their eating is getting out of hand, making them unhappy, yet they can’t seem to stop. This can be because there is a unconscious part…

As some of you may know, here in Brighton, we are having our second full Marathon soon. I have subsequently been seeing a few clients to help improve their physical and mental sports performance and deal with pre race anxiety, so they can do their best on the day. One of the big concerns people…

One of the most common areas that comes up when I see clients is to help them resolve internal conflict. Quite often when we want to make a positive change in an area of our life there can be another part of us that stands in the way, stopping us from fulfilling what we sometimes…

We all know how frustrating it is when we forget the name of somebody and have that “it’s on the tip of our tongue” feeling, or unexpectedly and temporarily stop a task we are in the middle of. There is a sense of relief and achievement when we remember the name or finally get to…

We all have internal dialogues going on inside our minds to varying degrees…with this voice of ours typically focused on either the past or the future. Of course this ability to be aware of the concept of past and future is essential for us to live in the world around us. Unfortunately this dialogue can…

Caveman instincts The fight/flight response or stress response is an emotional and physical way of coping that has been part of human behaviour since we were living in caves, fighting off big scary sabre tooth tigers! As you could well imagine the emotional response needed by our ancestors would have needed to be quick and…

Sleep is such a harmless soothing, comforting word to a lot of people, especially if you think back to when you were a child or a teenager. Yet for others it can bring a sense of impending dread, an expectation of what the night may entail and a possible resignation to sleeplessness. I know this…